NUFORC Sighting 41834

Occurred: 2005-01-24 15:42 Local
Reported: 2005-02-08 13:42 Pacific
Duration: 1 second
No of observers: 1

Location: Maui, HI, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Left a trail

Bright spherical object seen on north side of Maui

Bright spherical object with vaguely identifiable contrail seen on north side of Maui, Hawaii at about 3:42 p.m. local time on Monday, January 24, 2005, about 15 or 20 miles north of Ka'anapali on State Highway 30. Object appears to be headed into the ocean.

I was stopped on the side of the road taking pictures, and only noticed the object in one of my pictures when I got home and downloaded them, so unfortunately I did not witness it with my own eyes. I have previously sent a jpeg picture of the object to the www.nwlink.com website (ufocntr@nwlink.com) -- don't know if it's been posted on this website or not. The picture was taken with a 5.0 megapixel camera set at 1/250 of a second, with an ISO of 50 and an 8.0 aperture.

Not sure if the object is a crashing satellite or something else, but am interested in whether anyone else saw anything similar in the area that day.

Posted 2005-02-08